
ENGINEERING SOCIETY 



MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 




CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

TOGETHER WITH 
PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETY TO DATE 

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 
APRlLy 1901 



CIVIL ENGINEERING SOCIETY . 



MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 




CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

TOGETHER WITH 

PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETY TO DATE 

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 
APRIL, 1901 



CIVIL ENGINEERING SOCIETY 



MASS. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 




CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS 

TOGETHER WITH 

PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETY TO DATE 

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BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 
APRIL, 1901 






OFFICERS FOR 1900--01. 



PRESIDENT, 

F. H. Bass, 1901. 
VICE-PRESIDENT, 

R. S. LORING, 1901 

SECRE TARY, TREASURER. 

Farley Gannett, 1902. H. H. Fletcher, 1902. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 

F. H. Bass, 1901 H. C. Hildreth, 1901. 

L. S. Florsheim, 1901. L. C. Hammond, 1902. 

Farley Gannett, 1902. 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE, 

Prof. Geo. F. Swain, Prof. Alfred E. Burton. 

Prof. D wight Porter. Prof. C. Frank Allen. 

H. P. McDonald, 1901. L. P. Wood, 1901. 

R. H. Stearns, 1901. G. T. Seabury, 1902. 

S. K. Baker, 1903. 

HONORARY MEMBERS, 

Pres. Henry S. Pritchett. Prof. George F. Swain. 

Ex-Pres. James M. Crafts. Prof. A. E. Burton. 

Prof. C. Frank Allen. Prof. A. G. Robbins. 

Mr. F. P. McKiBBEN. Mr. K. S. Sweet. 

Mr. C. M. Spofford. Mr. F. H. Watts. 

Mr. G. L. Hosmer. Mr, C. B. Breed. 

Mr. C. M. Fosdick. Mr. A. B. White. 
Mr. G. E. Russell. 



The Civil Engineering Society of the Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology was reorganized Febru- 
ary 20, 1889. The object of the Society is to increase 
the interest of the students in the Civil and Sanitary 
Engineering Departments in Civil Engineering and 
allied subjects. To this end meetings are held every 
two or three weeks during the school year, at which 
addresses are made by either professors, business men 
or the students themselves. It is planned to have the 
students take as active a part in these meetings as is 
possible ; thus affording an excellent opportunity for 
them to become accustomed to speaking in public and 
also enabling them to become better acquainted v/ith 
members of the other classes than would otherwise be 
possible. 



CONSTITUTION. 



article I. 



The name of this Society shall be the Civil Engineering 
Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

ARTICLE II. 

The objects of the Society are, to awaken and maintain an 
active interest in the study of Civil Engineering among its 
members, and to aid generally in their intellectual advancement 
and improvement. 



ARTICLE III. 

Members of the Society shall be Active and Honorary. 

Active members shall be members of the Senior and 
Junior and Sophmore Classes in the Civil, Mining, and Sanitary 
Engineering Department, or any former students of the school 
who may be qualified to enter those classes. 

Honorary members shall be the professors and instruc- 
tors in the Civil Engineering department, and any other 
persons who may be approved by the Executive Committee 
and unanimously elected by the Society. 

They shall have all the privileges and rights of members, 
but shall not be liable to any dues or assessments. 

ARTICLE IV. 

The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice- 
President, Secretary, Treasurer and an Executive-Committee 
which shall consist of five members, including the President 
and Secretary. 

They shall be elected at the annual meeting by a majority 
of the votes cast ; the President and Vice-President being 
chosen from the Junior Class, the Secretary and Treasurer 
from the Sophmore Class. 

The duties of these officers shall begin at the close of the 
last meeting of the school year. 

ARTICLE V. 

The President, and in his absence the Vice-President, 
shall preside at all the meetings of the Society. 

The Secretary shall keep an accurate record of all the 
transactions of the Society; notify all meetings; issue all 
notices ; and shall have charge of all books and papers 
belonging to the Society. 



The Treasurer shall have charge of all the funds of the 
Society, receive all assessments, and pay all bills and orders 
approved by the president, or in his absence by the Vice- 
President. 

He shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and 
expenditures, and make a report of the same at the annual 
meeting 

The duties of the Executive Committee shall be to have a 
general care of the affairs of the Society ; to apply the funds in 
the treasury and to recommend the appropriations for specific 
purposes, and to make a report on the affairs of the Society at 
the annual meeting. 

ARTICLE VI. 

Seven members shall constitute a quorum. 

ARTICLE VII. 

The name of any candidate for membership shall be pro- 
posed by a member of the Society at least two weeks before he 
is balloted for. 

ARTICLE VIII. 

Any person thus nominated for Active membership, who 
shall receive the ballots of three-fourths of the members 
present and voting at any regular meeting, shall be considered 
duly elected. 

ARTICLE IX. 

Any Active member duly elected shall become a member 
on subscribing his name to the Constitution, and paying one 
dollar initiation fee to the Treasurer. 

ARTICLE X. 

Any member who does not pay his assessment within 
three months after it is due, shall cease to be a member. 



ARTICLE XI. 

The last regular meeting in April shall be the annual 
meeting. 

ARTICLE XII. 

Any amendment may be made to the Constitution by a 
two-thirds vote of the members present, at each of two suc- 
cessive regular meetings. 

Amendments may be made to the following By-Law^s, by 
a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting, provided that they 
have been proposed in writing at the previous meeting. 



BYLAWS. 



Section i. Regular meetings shall be held every three 
weeks of the school year : the night being fixed by the 
Executive Committee. 

Sect. 2. The following order of business shall be 
observed at all regular meetings, unless set aside by a majority 
vote of the members present . — 

1. Reading of the minutes. 

2. Reports of committees. 

3. Balloting for new members. 

4. Unfinished business. 

5. New business. 

6. Literary exercises. 

Sect. 3. The President may call a special meeting of 
the Society when he deems it expedient, and it shall be his 
duty to do so at the written request ol five members, stating the 
purpose of such meeting. 

Sect. 4. At the last regular meeting of each school year 
the Society shall elect a Programme Committee, consisting of 
the four professors of the Civil Engineering Department, and 
six members from the Society. 

It shall be the duty of this committee to arrange a suitable 
programme for each meeting. 

Sect. 5. Reports of all committees shall be in writing. 

Sect. 6. All papers read by members of this Society 
shall be filed with the Secretary, and shall be accessable to 
members. 

Sect. 7. The dues of this Society shall be fifty cents per 
annum, on or before November ist. 

Sect. 8. All proceedings at meetings shall be in accor- 
dance with the rules of order laid down in *^ Roberts' Rules of 
Order," except in so far as they may conflict with the Consti- 
tution and By-Laws of this Society. 



SYNOPSIS OF PROCEEDINGS. 



The proceedings for years previous to 1898-99 have been 
published in former constitutions of the Society. 

1898. 

December 19. — Professor Arthur G. Robbins, on various 
forms of Telemeters. 

1899. 

February 20, — Mr. U. T. Barnes, '93, on Construction of the 
Further Water Supply of the City of New Bedford. 
(Illustrated). 

March 6. — Mr. E. C. Sherman, '98, on Work of U. S. Engi- 
neers in Deep Water Ways along the St. Lawrence 
River in Northern New York. 

March 20. — Mr. F. O, Clapp, '99. on Construction of Chemical 
Precipitation Plant at Providence, R. I. (Illustrated). 

March 31. — Second Annual Dinner of the C. E. Society held 
at United States Hotel. 

April 10. — Mr. C. B. Breed, '97, on abolition of Grade Cross- 
ings on B. & A. R. R. (Illustrated.) 

April 12. — Special memorial meeting for Mr. Guy Prentiss 
Burch. 

May I. — Annual meeting for election of officers for 1900-01. 

May 8. — Mr. F. P. McKibben, '94, on Construction of the New 
Bridge at New Bedford (Illustrated). 

October 13. — Mr. G. E. Russell, '00, on the Summer School 
of '99. 

November ii.— Excursion to Spot Pond. 

November 27. — Mr. F. H. Bass, '01, on new Filter Beds at 
Marlboro. 



December 15. — Professor G. E. Barton, on A Summer in 
Greenland (Illustrated). 

1900. 

January 2. — Mr. A. A. Reimer, '00, on the Construction of the 

Black Brook Drain, East Orange, N. J. 
February 16. — Mr. G. L. Hosmer, on the Epping Base in 

relation to the Triangulation of New England. 
March 2. — Mr. Charles M. Spofford, on Manufacture of 

Structural Steel Shapes and Steel Rails. 
March 16. — Mr. F. H. Watts, '97, on Photographic Surveying 

(Illustrated). 
March 23. — Mr. P. H. Delano, '00, on The Longwood 

Avenue Masonry Arch Bridge (Illustrated). 
March 30. — The Third Annual Dinner was held at United 

States Hotel, 84 present. 
April 3. — Excursion to Studio of Mr. C. G. Curtis. 
April 12. — Mr. R. B. Davis, on Elevated Railroads. 
April 30. — Annual Election of Officers. Messrs T. Hurber, 

Delano and Suter, '00. on Topographical Surveys of 

Summer oi* '99. 
May 5. Excursion to Shops of C. L. Berger & Sons. 
May 7. — Professor E. B. Homer, on Roads which I have 

travelled. 
May 14 — $100 appropriated to Walker Memorial Fund. 
October 18.— Mr. S. L. Wonson, '01, on Summer School of 

1900. 
November 3. — Excursion to Metropolitan High Level Sewer. 
November 16. — W. C. Taylor and R. S. Loring on A Photo- 
graphic Survey. 
November 26. — Special meeting addressed by Professors 

Swain, Allen and Burton on reading Engineering 

Journals. 



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December 3. — Professor W. T. Sedgwick, on Some Historic 
Diseases and their Lessons to Engineers. 

December 21. — Mr. W. C. PickersgiU, '01, Sewage Fields of 
South Framingham. Mr. L. Pierce on development 
of Hydraulic Air Compressor. 

1901. 

February 15. — Farley Gannett, '02, on Topographic Work 

of U. S. Geological Survey (Illustrated). 
March i. — Messrs McDonald, Whitman, Bigelow and Dulude, 

'01, on Some Notable Foundations. 
March 15. — Mr. J. R. Brownell, '01, on Underground Trolleys. 

Mr. R. S. Loring, on Plumbing in Tall Buildings. 
March 29. — Mr. L. duPont, '01, on Reconstruction of Bridges 

in Service. Mr. G. E. Russell, '00, on Steel Dams. 
April 9.— 4th Annual Dinner, U. S. Hotel— 88 present. 
April 15. — Mr. A. E. Place, '02, on Works for Control of 

Mountain Torrents Abroad (Illustrated). 



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